DP: a detector for presuppositions in survey questions

Authors:
Katja Wiemer-Hastings;Peter Wiemer-Hastings
Affiliations:
University of Memphis, Memphis, TN;University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Venue:
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
Year:
2000

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Abstract

This paper describes and evaluates a detector of presuppositions (DP) for survey questions. Incorrect presuppositions can make it difficult to answer a question correctly. Since they can be difficult to detect, DP is a useful tool for questionnaire designer. DP performs well using local characteristics of presuppositions. It reports the presupposition to the survey methodologist who can determine whether the presupposition is valid.